I couldn’t put it better than above: after the legacy media reported death rates on a daily basis throughout two years, why aren’t they covering the unexpected rise in deaths that the UK is seeing? These are deaths that do not have Covid on the death certificate.
The UK heatwave may be able to account for some excess deaths during two separate weeks in July and August, but it certainly cannot account for the trend of excess deaths seen from the Spring of 2022. As former ONS statistician Jamie Jenkins has shown, registered deaths in 2022 are more than 10% above the average for years prior to the Covid era, comparing this year to years 2015 - 2019 (see his chart below).
Deaths registered this year v those from former years:
Just following a period where a number of vulnerable and elderly people passed away a few years early during the Covid era, we would expect the death rate to now have fallen below average, not risen above it, as is the case. So why are the legacy media not reporting on this?
A local newspaper, the Shropshire Star, did, however, report recently on record numbers of ambulance call outs for the most serious conditions. NHS staff in England dealt with more than 85,000 call-outs to life-threatening conditions in July – the highest number since records began. This was for cardiac arrests and respiratory arrests (1). The heatwave could account for a proportion but not all of these call outs, and, in any case, the excess deaths started showing up from the Spring of 2022.
The causality of these deaths is less clear. Jamie Jenkins points out, in June 2022, in England, the cause of death with the largest increase above the five-year average, after age standardising, was 'Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions (2). He also shows that the excess mortality is in certain age groups: 10 - 14, 30 - 39, 55 - 64 and 75 - 79. So what exactly is going on?
One minute the legacy media are obsessed with death rates, and then the next, they appear blind to a significant change in them. It’s almost as if the public are only being fed news that fits an agenda!
Come on journalists and scientists: stand up for the truth - investigate and analyse what’s happening. Serve the public interest as befits democracy. If you did this in large enough numbers, they can’t sack you all! Or if they do, start your own news outlets.
References
(1) https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/health/2022/08/11/ambulance-call-outs-for-the-most-serious-conditions-hit-highest-on-record-last-month/
(2) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1556979938481377280.html